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      "company": "Hubei Jingchu Humanoid Robot",
      "hq_country": "China",
      "website": "http://www.jingchurobot.cn",
      "status": "active",
      "what_it_builds": "Builds its own linear-drive humanoid robots under the JCBOT brand: the bipedal Jingchu No.1 (~170cm/65kg, 40+ DOF) for education, industry and service use, plus wheeled models Jingchu Elf (reception/guidance) and Jingchu Xiaochu (tourism/entertainment/companion), developed from a Huazhong University of Science and Technology research team led by Academician Ding Han.",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://humanoid.guide/?p=19837",
      "founded_year": "2025",
      "founded_source": "https://www.peopleapp.com/column/30050952620-500007250523",
      "funding_usd": null,
      "funding_basis": "none disclosed",
      "funding_source": null,
      "funding_note": "Company was capitalized by the Ding Han team and Wuhan Institute of Industrial Innovation (Wuchuang Institute) when established in Wuhan's Wuchang district, per peopleapp.com (people.cn), which states the firm was set up in May 2025 and later received 'timely capital injections' (及时注资) from Wuchuang and other units; no round amounts, dates or valuations are disclosed in any source reviewed. A separate search summary (not independently verified by direct page fetch) referenced 'three financing rounds' without amounts. No disclosed funding figure could be sourced, so funding_usd and funding_source are left empty.",
      "latest_funding_date": null,
      "valuation_usd": null,
      "latest_model": "Jingchu No.1 (荆楚一号)",
      "latest_model_year": "2025",
      "latest_model_source": "https://regional.chinadaily.com.cn/eastlakehightechzone/2025-02/06/c_1068232.htm",
      "units_shipped": null,
      "units_shipped_source": null,
      "units_shipped_note": "No published cumulative or periodic unit-shipment figure was found for Jingchu/JCBOT in the company site or press sources reviewed; gmw.cn (Dec 2025) states production is made-to-order with output expected to rise by year-end, but gives no shipped-unit count.",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://humanoid.guide/?p=19837",
    "https://regional.chinadaily.com.cn/eastlakehightechzone/2025-02/06/c_1068232.htm",
    "https://www.peopleapp.com/column/30050952620-500007250523",
    "http://www.jingchurobot.cn",
    "https://www.news.cn/politics/20260226/c86ef09d79234b4c917b66bfb58c6052/c.html",
    "https://m.gmw.cn/2025-07/01/content_38126963.htm",
    "https://www2.yicaiglobal.com/news/new-humanoid-robot-store-opens-in-chinas-wuhan"
  ]
}